Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The story of man's ascent toward the heavens has been told for ages.

The ancient Greeks wrote of Icarus, who flew on wings his father made out of wax.

Icarus had been warned not to fly too close to the sun, but did so anyway, and fell into

the sea and drowned when his feathers melted.

Master artist Leonardo da Vinci sketch numerous flying machines of his own design, perhaps

hoping one day he might learn to soar like the birds.

And of course, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who flew their revolutionary

airplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

History declares their efforts as the first recorded powered flight, but one man in

1897 might consider them a little late to the party.

It happened on April 17th near Aurora, a small town in Northeastern Texas.

The incident was first reported by SE Hayden in the Dallas newspaper.

The article described what had befallen Judge Proctor's farm.

Early that morning something fell out of the sky and crashed into the judge's windmill,

skidding along the dirt and past his house, taking out his precious flower bed in the process.

People from all over Aurora came to gawk at the strange craft that had plummeted to

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